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- Glenn Miller Festival 2004
- People in story:听
- Jack Wakefield
- Location of story:听
- Paris
- Background to story:听
- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:听
- A2983179
- Contributed on:听
- 08 September 2004
In December, 1944 I was with a RAF bomb disposal unit in the BLA, in Belgium. We were the first Bomb disposal unit to go over.
I was lucky in a draw and got a sheer pass back to Paris, just before Christmas, where I was lucky again to get ticket for the Glenn Miller band concert, a wonderful occasion.
Unfortunately, Glenn Miller had gone missing on the flight to the concert and ray McInlay the drummer, took over. There were only a few Brits there, the audience being mainly G.I鈥檚
Paris was cold and dark-we slept in our overcoats!
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